On 02/27/2018 10:42 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Since we don't know which file is the problem, we need to get rid of all of
them. There is no harm in keeping them just in case, so create a clean
folder in your home dir, and move everything you see in /var/cache/apt/ to
that folder. Make sure you leave the 'apt' folder there, because it
probably won't recreate it.
But based on the errors you provided, it looks like its failing on a very
specific package. It seems unusually upset about virtualbox. Clear out
/var/cache/apt since that may be the problem, and if it fails after then we
may need to take a closer look at your install of virtualbox.
I created a copy of /var/cache/apt in my home directory and then deleted
the contents of /var/cache/apt. I ran sudo apt-get update and got the
same results as before, the two offenders being virtualbox and google
earth.
I finally recall that in order to have USB support in virtualbox I had
to use the one from Oracle. I've been getting a notice that a new
version is available, but I haven't done anything about it yet. To do
the initial install I used
virtualbox-5.1_5.1.22-115126~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb. Does that put
itself into apt? Do I need to do something so apt doesn't see it
anymore? I tried sudo apt-mark hold virtualbox. That did what it said it
would do, but didn't affect the result of sudo apt-get update.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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